Comment fanning the fires of the original issue (Score 1) 516
It seems she clearly ignored the policies on sending out mass emails to the faculty. She even stated that she would not discontinue her actions.
She is clearly fighting a political fight of protest where her entire intent is to get as many eyeballs on her grievance as possible.
It isn't so much as an issue of free speech. She isn't being censored for her opinions. She is being reprimanded for a breach of use in computer systems. What she has done quite successfully is gotten a much larger audience on the original issue than would care otherwise.